Gil Brandt
Gil Brandt
Gil Brandtis a former Vice President of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys from 1960 to 1988. He is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin...
guys kinds playing
We just don't have the Butkuses, we don't have the Nitschkes. We don't have those kinds of guys playing linebacker anymore.
advanced athletic faster guy less risky system upside
McNair was less risky than Young probably, but I also think that Young has more upside than McNair. McNair was probably more advanced because of the system that they used (at Alcorn). Young is a little more athletic and probably a little faster than McNair was, and with Young you've got a guy that has unbelievable potential.
bad balance best blame credit decisions everybody fights good guy happens maybe next side wants year
No one wants the blame for the bad decisions and everybody fights for the credit on the good decisions, ... When you need a consensus, what happens is maybe this year I side with you and the next year I side with another guy to balance things out. That's not making the best decision for the franchise.
contract financial guys knew leaf respond utopia work
Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.
ability guy moving understand
I think he has the ability to play much better than he has been. This is another guy who has to understand that he's now moving up a class.
close guy might seen special
I think sometimes, when you're close to somebody, you might overvalue a person. And I'm close to Young. But I've seen what the guy has done. I just think he's a pretty special player.
guy seems
He's a Deion Sanders -type athlete. It seems like this guy can do everything, just like Deion did.
bear draft extra guys stay year
Historically we do not draft safeties high. So many guys that stay that extra year bear out so much better.
defensive good guy intriguing offensive tight work worked
He didn't work out like a tight end would work out, but he worked out like a defensive or offensive lineman. He's an intriguing guy, a good guy to look at.
chose due following good guy paper study
He chose not to come because he had a paper due the following Monday. The guy has pretty good study habits.
grade guy picked seldom
Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the first, and seldom do you have a second-round grade and he's picked in the sixth.
boat bosses guy happens learns life million next selling sells talent until
You can have the talent at one level, but when you get to the next level, it just doesn't happen. It's like the young guy selling insurance. One year, he sells $6 million of life insurance, and then his bosses say, 'Wait until he really learns how to sell.' But then he's got a boat and a country-club membership, and all of a sudden, he's not as good. That's what happens with players.
concern guy heard problems recovery remarkable
I haven't heard any concern from anybody. He's made a remarkable recovery for a guy that had the problems he did.
against corner good guy last limited lined mark nickel oklahoma passes short three
If you go back to last year, he lined up on Mark Clayton of Oklahoma and he limited Clayton to three short passes against him, ... I think this guy can play corner in the NFL. He can play safety. He can play the nickel corner, and he's got good character.